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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1902
Page
6
Beginning Wednesday July 23 at 4 p m and for two days more a Gas Stove Expert will host practical tests at the Dairy 11 Noble Street. Demonstrations cover stove construction and economical use with a $1.25 gas vs $3.50 coal comparison. Ladies receive coupon tickets for a chance to draw a free gas stove, with attendance and district residence as conditions.
A boy, nine, pawns his sister’s coat to raise a dollar and a quarter to keep her fed and warm. He explains his mother is sick and Maggie must go to work, enduring the bitter cold as he watches the pawnbroker weigh the needed coin.
The article explains that the bawbee name for Scotland's halfpenny stems from a baby Mary Stuart portrait first struck in 1545 when she was nine months old. It notes preserved coins with the baby face and details a later social anecdote at a Union League banquet involving Wayne MacVeagh and George B. Roberts, ending with a quip about a heaven offer in a priestly reply.
One board school pupil writes the chorus starting with Roy Brick Tanner while another begins with tore Britanner. A third attempts a full verse rendering a garbled text about blessings and Ged, Chelter and stars, showing how the patriotic song was distorted in class.
In Harry de Windt’s Pinland as It Is a tale recalls Andree the arctic explorer. A talkative neighbor probes how he would know when crossing the pole. Andree replies with dry humor that a north wind would become a south wind.
Louis XVII the dauphin died in the Temple of Paris amid abuse and neglect. His body was identified by four members of the committee of public safety and over twenty temple officials. The remains were privately buried at St Marguerite cemetery, with the grave erased from record.
The women of Carthage, led by their queen, sacrificed their hair to make ropes for the besieged city when flax ran short. Their act of devotion is recorded as a grand ancient tale of sacrifice and resistance against Rome.
A humorous exchange from Keeping Up With Fate where a fortune teller predicts marriage within a year and a married woman reacts by saying she must start divorce proceedings, highlighting a comic misreading of fate in Boston Post.
The readable portion references capital setters in writing and printing, noting a systematic approach. The text appears to discuss typographic methods and possibly historical or editorial standards without complete context or detail.
A tense political gathering in which Congressman Kennedy announced joining the Democratic Party was interrupted by Plummer before a miner attacked him with a punch. The confrontation halted when the meeting adjourned.
The story recounts Logeborg Vinding and Poul Vendelbo Loveporn, a poor student who on Copenhagen ramparts pledged a kiss from a beautiful window lady to fund his trip abroad. He kissed Ingeborg Vinding to fulfill that promise and later returned to visit the Adjutant General Lovenern.
London Mail notes the modern kilt is a recent fashion not of native Scottish origin. An English army tailor aiding Wade in 1719 and Thomas Rawlinson, an ironworks overseer, are credited with its invention. For centuries before, Highland dress used a saffron plaid worn in a single piece around the body.
William Black and his wife were to dine with Mary Anderson in her Lyceum room when Black secretly pasted a Poison label on champagne bottles in the Beefsteak Club room. Guests, unfamiliar with him, were startled to learn his boyish side as the prank backfired.
A Yonkers Statesman quote notes a New Jersey senator being described as a “ferocious Newark mosquito.” The remark comes in a senate gallery scene where a man with eyeglasses asks for a real brilliant remark as the senator is said to be forever pushing his little bill.
A London Standard snippet presents a scene where a father warns his son against marrying Stubbs’ daughter to keep the family money, while the son argues the match is necessary to gain any shilling from Stubbs. The father insists, my own boy, marry her and render that old skinflint penniless.
A lively exchange between a diner and the restaurant owner over a duck choice. The patron praises a canvasback while the proprietor counters with a playful suggestion of a greenback.
A New York Weekly line notes that every juror on the panel either rented or bought a house from the speaker during a career in real estate, suggesting potential bias and influence in a forthcoming case.
A witty New York Times quip explores heredity with a sharp joke about a barber who has three little shavers. The remark plays on genetic traits in a light, humorous style.
The London docks host the world’s biggest ivory market with quarterly sales averaging a sizeable volume. The scene underscores vast trade in ivory amid ongoing concerns over elephant conservation and regulation.
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